16-Day Lab

Have you ever wanted a pet that was intelligent, adorable, affordable, and healthy? They are pigs! One reason, their food is

Insects have much more access to the piglet to feed off of it. A piglet suspended in the air decomposes at a divergent rate than one left on the ground or the cement. A piglet that is on the cement will decompose much quicker than the suspended piglet. While the piglet is on the cement, the body basically can fry on the pavement depending on the temperature outside.

Pigs are one of the most similar animals to humans, and can be analyzed to learn about the organ systems of the body. Both pigs and humans are mammals, omnivores, furless and featherless, and their fetuses receive nutrients from their mothers through the umbilical cord as they develop (Field). These

I wasn’t sure if I was going to get over my fear of having to look at something being hacked into. I think the truth of the matter is I was feeling sorry for the pigs that died to become the subject for our own amusement. When the time drew nearer for the dissection I asked Mr. Johnson why we were dissecting pigs in the first place. The answer to my question was something I never really thought of. Mr. Johnson told the entire class the reason why we were dissecting fetal pigs was because it is the closest thing to a human being. The feel of pig skin has the almost exact same feel as human skin does and since we couldn’t actually dissect a human he thought that the pigs were the next best thing. After all, this is Biology and some of you might

While the piglet is supine with its wrists placed horizontally along the sides, make a vertical cut that starts where the hair starts on the piglet’s chin. When you reach the urogenital region of the female pig, cut around both sides of the urogenital region in order to prevent cutting of any of the organs. Then, use string to tie around the piglet’s wrists and ankles in order to dissect easier. After making the vertical incision, slice the diaphragm in order to pull the diaphragm back so you can see the organs underneath the

Leland S. Olsen, George W. Kelley and H. G. Sen, conducted an experiment in which they observed a ten-week-old York-Hampshire crossbred pig that was infected with Ascaris suum, a close relative to Ascaris lumbricoides, from the beginning of its egg production to the end. (Olsen et al. 1958) These observations were made in order to determine the average lifespan of individual worms and the life-time egg- producing capacity of female. The observations began on the ten-week-old York-Hampshire crossbred pig shortly after Ascaris eggs appeared in the faeces. The pig was kept in an isolated room, and two times a day, five days a week, all of the faeces was collected, weighed and inspected for worms. For each collection of faeces, a ten-gram sample

A comparison of decomposition patterns in human bodies versus pig bodies and the reliability of pig taphonomic facilities.

Dissecting dead or living animals can hurt the way they grow up, so each year in the U.S. an estimation of 20 million animals are abused. And also animals should have a chance to live.

My project will investigate the effects of piglet size and aggression on teat order as well as the effects of pre-weaning piglet aggression on the amount of post-weaning piglet

This post is actually about a Guinea Pig I saw last week, but forgot about. Luckily I documented it so I get to show you all the whole thing. Warning (as stated above) this is gonna get gross.

According to the Australian museum, a pig resembles a human body in ways such as fat distribution, hair coverage and the ability to attract similar insects during decomposition. This makes the pig trotters relevant when it comes to understanding the processes of decay in the human body. (reference) Chemical decomposition is one of the most effective ways of decomposing the body.

By introducing that new pig into the herd (s)he must be isolated from the herd for 4 weeks to become acclimated to the challenges that individual will face as well as prevent her from possibly infecting the herd with disease causing agents. The cleanliness of the environment and ventilation attribute to the cumulative risk of a disease. If pigs are housed in a dirty environment there is a possible increase in exposure to an agent, which plays into ventilation, too much air can help the disease spread and not enough ventilation can cause an increase in a specific pathogen to increase within a certain area and lead to fomites. Another way to reduce the risk of disease is to practice all-in, all-out, this helps break disease. In addition, by not mixing older pigs with younger pig, eliminating the ability for older pigs to infect younger pigs.

On September 10th 2017 Mr. Striker placed out 10 dead baby piglets in the body farm at Wabash Heartland Career Center. The piglets all had different factors and the piglets where all still born. Before the body farm even started we wrote theories on questions that we were given and what we would think would happen to each piglet in different factors. We started observing these piglets on September 11th 2017. We observed these piglets for three weeks until mostly all of the piglets where decomposed all the way to bones.

On September 10th, 2017 Mr. Striker placed out 10 dead baby piglets in the body farm at the Wabash Heartland Career Center. The piglets all had different factors and the piglets were all stillborn. Before the body farm even started we wrote theories on questions that we were given and what we would think would happen to each piglet in different factors. We started observing these piglets on September 11th 2017. We observed these piglets for three weeks until mostly all of the piglets where decomposed all the way to bones.

A pig trap is essential to get a potential result of product saving. It means that there is no requirement for adding an extensive line flushing as the pig cleaned out the entire